Howie Dorough told MTV News UK that The Wanted reached out to him and his bandmates to feature in the clip themselves.

"We just saw the guys the other day at our concert at G-A-Y at the Heaven club and they're a bunch of great guys," Dorough said.

"We've known them for about a year now, four of us did a performance with them with the New Kids back at the Hershey Park festival last August and I actually had a chance to meet their manager Ashley at the Grammy Awards and we exchanged information."

He continued: "He had his partners reach out to me to see if the guys would actually be interested in making a cameo in the ['Walks Like Rihanna'] video, but unfortunately our schedules didn't work, but we were very flattered by it.

"We actually had a chance to read the treatment and see how they were excited about paying homage to us and that's cool. You know, so many artists have inspired us out there in the world from Boyz II Men to Shai to The Temptations, all the groups back to doo-wop days."

He added: "It's actually really cool to see that we can inspire other artists that are up and coming."

"All the new artists that are coming out… they're doing their own thing and we pay respect to them. Everybody is getting their shot, to get out there and to bring new music to a new generation of fans that are coming around and so we pay them our respect."